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Show NORTH RIVER am/Z DELEWARE. Misconnncr 0f Howe. preenable ; and where they can concentre all their forces and blliitheir refources, and where vuflory 1tfelf can bringr no other advantage with it to him, but 'poflellion of the field of battle. No line of feparation betWeen the Southern and 7‘} ortheryn. rebels can be formed from the Delaware: The storm "his", and the Lakes George and Champlain, form the trey ot‘ AmeIf General t-lowe went to the. D1elaware out of Figiio. Howe unfit orllCll. ‘cnworKhV his rance, he is unfit for the command ; if ne'went out 0. any comman‘l' other motive, he is unworthy of it. It be is continued here, he will either remain on the Delaware, expat; Ring the blood and treafure of the nation to no purpole, or he Wlll move to the Northward, leavingt a garrifon in it, and not lels than 10,000 Will proteEt it ; or he wrll abandon it altogetxtr, which is hardly to be expected, as that would be confeliing in the ftrongell manner, the futility of his lormer operations By of communication from St. Lawrence to New York would have been formed by the lakes and polls on the North River, dividing the northern from the touthern provinces. Had this been doine, the rebellion would have been half over, even without a. battle. But fome people teem never to have looked at the map of America; or, if they did, they have proved to us they did not underl‘tand it. Since Philadelphia was taken, General Howe has never been able to get out of light of it; and the whole campaign appears to have been {pent in taking that fingle town, which if we‘ keep, will coll us an army to defend. In truth, merely through militonducl, inllead of our expedi- ed l'uceei'l'es, we have met with nothing but misfortune and difgrace. The deferting Burg); yne has loll us 10,000 men and upwards, Coll of to,ooo Futility of histhis you lets, be hasonly a chore-c of d1lllf11ltl€8klfl1ilL‘l‘pptxys operations rtln- his great conquei‘l 0t Philadelphia, or dtigrace tr polars it. in regular troops, Canadians, and Indians, and in loyal fub- mcn. jeels ti ‘ii‘il'it': to Albany and the Lakes ; and the glorious ac- ,"Hy ruined 'dl‘l".‘l"‘"‘."l"‘lti defer-tins; the northern army, he has A. m‘gn‘m‘l" himfelf, hellias no choice left but to rel "n ; end his charaeler, s, in a fortmght trom hlsmly Chm"- as a 0rent oflicer, is gone for ex? '2 unlefs General Howe, while this rebellion lalls, means to pro- thisfit is probable he will be irrizen up‘tor two months ; {0 that we are not lilttly to hear any tarngr of him, or the army under his command, till the month of llla‘rch next year. The Delaware generally freezes about the beaunnrnq .ot the ear. and the ice, for the mall part, renders the ll'l‘llg'fltlon 1m< practicable, or very dangerous, till fometime in March. The people here have no hopes iron] our prelent commanders ; they hare been fuflicientlv tried; the only expectation lett us is, Decemdcr Gen. Howe's miltonduct. NEW 16H), Whereas, it the communication had been formed by Tecuring Advantam 0f the North River and the Lakes, the operations ofour army to ailing oii the the northward would have covered New York, Longr Illand, North Riverand Rhode Illand, which would have enabled General Howe to take the field with at had 10,000 men more than he has been able to do in Pennfylvania. In that cafe he would only have had the northern rebels to contend with ; for VVafhington could not have polled the North gun boats, and other craf . Then the taking of Conneélicut, a finall but fertile colony, and the florehoufe of New England, YORK. I777. tet't that darling conquell with his whole army. River while the Eallern Banks were defended by our polls, and the whole river occupied by our armed (hips, floating batteries, that better men next'campaign will purfue better meafures. LETTER from quilition or i‘ililaclil‘f‘i'llfl, wll coll us a qarritbn of 10,000 more, . It is an unanimous lentiment here, that our misfortunes this campaign have arilen, not [0 much from the genius and valout ol the rebels, as from the mifcondu-ft of a certain perfon. Our Commander in chief feems not to have known, orto have forgotten, that there was fuch a thing as the North River; and that General Burgoyne, with his {mall army, would want fupport in his attempt to penetrate to Albany; as the inhabirants of that country were the mall rugged and hardy, and the bell accullomed to arrns, of any of the Northern rebels. ' If General Howe had been fo happy for himlelf and h" country as to have moved up the North River, inllead ofg‘omg would have enfured the conquell of the northern colonies. They mull have thrown down their arms or llarvrul; for I cannot fUppole, that a body of militia could have defeated an Englilh regulariarmy, amounting at leaft to thirty thoufand men, and as well appointed in every relpeé‘t, as any army that ever took the field; and the men ot‘thztt army, roulbd to the highell pitch 9f ymhuliafm in the caufe of Old England, and infpired with mdlgnation againll the rebels, for their multiplied atfts of treachery and barbarity. But the fpirit, the vigour, and the lives 0f many of our brave fellows in the main army, have lleen loll by purfuing the molt ill advifed meafures, the carryThe reverfc C, mg 0n_the war from the Chel‘apcak bay and Philadelphia,the Delaware. Places In which the rebels can bring their whole force againlt to lea in the middle of the Campaign, all America could not Us, and where all the advantages we may gain can avail us no- have prevented the junction of our two armies; and that'0 General Burgoyne's would have been fared 5 and a. firong 111;; but); further than keeping pollellion of‘the ground on_ WhiCh m3 encumps, In |